Jekyll2018-11-04T21:50:59+00:00http://blog.jaysinh.com/Jaysinh’s own heedI am a Full-stack developer by profession, Computer scientist by heart and an Actor by gene. I write mostly on programming topics. Browse through my blog posts to identify my taste of writing. My experience of mentoring at Django Girls Bangalore 20172017-11-14T02:31:25+00:002017-11-14T02:31:25+00:00http://blog.jaysinh.com/2017/11/14/django-girls-bangalore-2017<p><img src="http://blog.jaysinh.com/assets/images/django_girls_blr_2018/group_photo.jpg" alt="group_photo" /></p> <h2 id="tldr">TL;DR</h2> <p>Last Sunday, <a href="https://djangogirls.org/bangalore/">Django Girls Bangalore</a> organized a hands-on session of web programming. This is a small event report from my side.</p> <h2 id="detailed-overview">Detailed overview</h2> <p><a href="https://djangogirls.org/">Django Girls</a> is not for a profit initiative led by <a href="http://ola.sitarska.com/">Ola Sitarska</a> and <a href="http://blog.sendecka.me/">Ola Sendecka</a>. Such movement helps women to learn the skills of website development using the well-known web-framework <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/">Django</a>. This community is backed by organizers from many countries. Organizations like The <a href="https://www.python.org/psf/">Python Software Foundation</a>, <a href="https://github.com">Github</a>, <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/">DjangoProject</a> and many <a href="https://djangogirls.org/#supporters">more</a> are funding <a href="https://djangogirls.org/">Django Girls</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://djangogirls.org/bangalore/">Django Girls Bangalore</a> chapter was organized by <a href="https://twitter.com/MrSouravSingh">Sourav Singh</a> and <a href="https://anirudha.org/">Kumar Anirudha</a>. This was my second time mentoring for the <a href="https://djangogirls.org/">Django Girls</a> event. First was for the <a href="https://djangogirls.org/ahmedabad/">Ahmedabad chapter</a>. The venue was sponsored by <a href="https://www.hackerearth.com">HackerEarth</a>. 8 male and 2 female mentored 21 women during this event. Each mentor was assigned more or less 3 participants. Introducing participants with web development becomes easy with the help of <a href="https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/">Django Girls handbook</a>. The <a href="https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/">Django Girls handbook</a> is a combination of beginner-friendly hands-on tutorials described in a simple language. The <a href="https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/">handbook</a> contains tutorials on basics of Python programming language to deploying your web application. Pupils under me were already ready by pre-configuring Python with their workstation. We started by introducing our selves. We took some time browsing the <a href="http://submarinecablemap.com/">website</a> of undersea cables. One of the amusing questions I got is, “Isn’t the world connected with Satellites?”. My team was comfortable with the Python, so we quickly skimmed to the part where I introduced them to the basics of web and then <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/">Django</a>. I noticed mentors were progressing according to the convenience of participants. Nice amount of time was invested in discussing raised queries. During illumination, we heard a loud call for the lunch. A decent meal was served to all the members. I networked with other mentors and participants during the break. Post-lunch we created a blog app and configured it with our existing project. Overview of <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/">Django</a> models topped with the concept of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping">ORM</a> became the arduous task to explain. With the time as a constraint, I focused on admin panel and taught girls about deploying their websites to <a href="https://www.pythonanywhere.com/">PythonAnywhere</a>. I am happy with the hard work done by my team. They were able to demonstrate what they did to the world. I was more joyful than them for such achievement.</p> <p>The closing ceremony turned amusing event for us. 10 copies of <a href="https://www.twoscoopspress.com">Two scoops of Django</a> book were distributed to the participants chosen by random draw strategy. I solemnly thank the authors of the book and <a href="https://pothi.com/">Pothi.com</a> for gifting such a nice reference. Participants shared their experiences of the day. Mentors pinpointed helpful resources to look after. They insisted girls would not stop at this point and open their wings by developing websites using skills they learned. T-shirts, stickers and badges were distributed as event swags.</p> <p>You can find the list of all <a href="https://djangogirls.org/">Django Girls</a> chapters <a href="https://djangogirls.org/events/map/">here</a>. Djangonauts are encouraged to become a mentor for <a href="https://djangogirls.org/">Django Girls</a> events in your town. If you can’t finding any in your town, I encourage you to take the responsibility and organize one for your town. If you are already a part of <a href="https://djangogirls.org/">Django Girls</a> community, Why are you not sharing your experience with others?</p> <h6 id="proofreaders-kushal-das-dhavan-vaidya-isaul-vargas">Proofreaders: <a href="https://kushaldas.in">Kushal Das</a>, <a href="http://codingquark.com/">Dhavan Vaidya</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Dude-X">Isaul Vargas</a></h6>Jaysinh Shukla